Frodingham Infant School

Frodingham Infant School is a maintained infant school for pupils aged 3 to 7 in Scunthorpe. Inspectors found that pupils are happy, polite and kind, behaviour is mostly positive, and staff build warm relationships. Personal development and early years provision are strong, with children quickly learning routines and staff expertly supporting communication, language and social skills. Safeguarding is effective. This was a graded inspection under the framework introduced in September 2024, so no overall effectiveness grade was given; the previous inspection grade was requires improvement.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, polite and kind, and behaviour is mostly positive.
• Staff build warm, encouraging relationships and resolve friendship issues quickly.
• Pupils enjoy clubs, lunchtimes and breaktimes with a range of activities.
• The school has high expectations for pupils, and children in the early years quickly learn routines.
• Personal development is thorough and aspirational, including British values and respect.
• Early years provision is strong, with staff expertly developing communication, language and physical and social skills.
• Leaders have defined 'sticky knowledge' across year groups and created resources to revisit it.
• Staff are trained in early reading and model decoding skilfully.
• Teachers are skilled in PSHE, helping pupils understand emotions and positive relationships.
• Parents are well informed and involved, and pupils benefit from a wide range of experiences.
• Staff feel well supported and know they can ask for help.
• Governors know the school's strengths and weaknesses, support and challenge leaders, and have an accurate view.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils fall behind in the curriculum and do not catch up quickly enough.
• Teaching is not consistently linked to curriculum content and what pupils need to remember.
• Teachers sometimes introduce too many new concepts at once.
• Tasks sometimes rely on knowledge pupils have not yet learned and do not help them practise key knowledge.
• Vulnerable pupils, including those with SEND, are most affected by weak curriculum delivery.
• In key stage 1, staff sometimes miss misconceptions or lack of understanding, so pupils keep making mistakes.
• Reading checks are inconsistent, and struggling readers do not get regular practice to become fluent and accurate by the end of Year 2.
• Monitoring has not focused enough on the quality of curriculum implementation and its impact.
• Training is not helping teachers improve quickly enough, and some teachers lack training to deliver the curriculum well in all subjects.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Frodingham Infant School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Frodingham Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Frodingham Infant School had 18.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 6.2% of pupils at Frodingham Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Frodingham Infant School received £8,709 and spent £8,647 for each of its 177 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £137,000 (£777 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Frodingham Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Frodingham Infant School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in November 2025.

When was Frodingham Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Frodingham Infant School was last inspected in November 2025.

How many pupils does Frodingham Infant School have?

Frodingham Infant School has 192 pupils on roll.

What age range does Frodingham Infant School cover?

Frodingham Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Frodingham Infant School?

Frodingham Infant School is at Rowland Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, DN16 1ST.